Meditations On Egg Colors

Jenny, our Plymouth Barred Rock, laid her first egg yesterday. It's cream-colored with brown specks. Although, I was under the impression that the eggs would be brown, since our Rhode Island Reds have been laying, I don't consider the Barred Rock egg to be brown. The Rhodie eggs are more of a deep honey brown, whereas the Barred Rock egg is distinctly cream by comparison.

I also felt somewhat misled by the common refrain about Americauna eggs being blue or green. So far, Carmen has been laying about two weeks now, and her eggs are a very pale blue/green with white undertones. They are really more of a white gray with blue/green overtones.

Post-quiche consumption:

Here are pictures of Bored Collie Farm:

 

(Including, our dearest Bored Collie, herself, Miss Jane.)